I have a number of topics I want to look at in the coming weeks but the new Games Workshop Grey Knight release has somewhat caught me by surprise and with uncanny timing...
Now this is not going to be my gush on how lovely the new plastic Grey Knights are though they are indeed lovely. This is rather something else regarding what has been done with them rather than what they look like...
In my Apple Miniatures ramble last week I was talking a bit about plastic kits with wider options. This has not been how recent Games Workshop kits have worked for the most part. Well, that's unfair. Many of the kits have options, typically two weapon types for example. The new, larger kits, often have a couple of basic builds too. The basic Power Armoured Grey Knight kit goes a step further. Not only does it have a tremendous array of weapon options (and in many cases enough of each to equip the squad) but it makes up four entire unit types from the Grey Knight Codex. To put this in perspective it's not unlike making a regular space marine kit that makes Tactical Squad, Veteran Squad, Assault Squad and Devastator Squad. Okay, the Grey Knights are a little more focused in style so not quite that crazy but still... Four squads! And the Grey Knight Terminators make a couple of squads too... and with boatloads of options too (want to give your entire squad two swords each? Go for it!).
I'd suggested basically that rather than having ten figures on a sprue with a few options it is better to have five on their with lots and lots of options. This seemed like sense to me and was a little unsure why this wasn't happening more but assumed I was missing something. And yet, the day I post this stuff, barely a few hours later GW does exactly this. Promise I hadn't a clue. I knew the Greys were coming but wasn't expecting this...
So, a new way of doing things. Not going to say it's the first (The Blood Angels Death Company were along these lines but not as wide reaching in scope) but is this to be the way of the future of plastics? I kind of hope so as the biggest problem with plastics is that there's a finite amount of frames per release and so we can end up a little limited in options while we wait for future waves. Can't help but notice the Grey Knight range is practically complete with just three kits released in it's first wave. Impressive thinking.
So, what's GW's next trick? Warhammer Tomb Kings are next up so maybe a skeleton kit that does pretty much everything? That'd be nice...
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